Reflections, practices, and insights for living with greater awareness, self-trust, and connection to your inner wisdom.

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Building Bridges

You are not alone, not in truth anyway. That feeling of separation, of isolated distance, is created as you resist who you naturally are. That distance, or gap, is the space within yourself from your ego to your source.

That separateness is unnecessary, but your ego has good reason to try and prove otherwise. I can guarantee that your ego …

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Beliefs Realigned

Hypnosis is about belief systems. -Doug O’Brien

How do you get in touch with your beliefs?

Take a look at your behaviors.

Take a listen to that self talk that you have going on in the back of your mind.

Observe the ways in which you defend things in your life.

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Hire A Trusted Guide

As a hypnotherapist and shaman, I have found that gentle exploration is ideal when arriving to your pain. With grace and compassion, the pace is slow enough to make room for resources to heal, nourish, and integrate your pain. This shows up in the aspects or parts of yourself that you previously had dismissed, denied, or damaged through avoidance and criticism.

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Poem For Anna

Hello formless

Please help me feel see hear

I am inclined to even ask for understanding

But I realize that’s running ahead

I feel I’m learning to be like an Indian tracker

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Giving It Away

Brave enough to know I don’t know

Strong enough to try anyway

Loving enough to withstand the expansion

Letting my mind lose it’s footing

Identity drifting away

Beliefs crumble into oblivion

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Return To Innocence

Like a puppy

Sweet, innocent, exploring life

Never expecting to be hurt

Never planning to get lost

Abandonment wasn’t even a thought to consider

Finding you

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Love Along The Way

Have you ever felt like you were in a dark cave, scrambling about, trying to get out. As if you’re feeling along the walls for clues that might lead towards a doorway. Each clue is discovered, but it doesn’t seem to make sense. It’s like you have this bag of clues and it’s all just a jumbled mess, like all the letters just swirling in an alphabet soup.

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